Clinical Specialist - Complex Emotional Needs

Posting date:	08 January 2026
Salary:	£47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£47810.00 - £54710.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	21 January 2026
Location:	Harrogate, HG27SX
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	C9346-26-0017

Summary

System Responsibilities as part of the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme: Increase the resilience of others to work effectively with this client group through provision of education and training to improve knowledge and understanding To develop and enhance relationships within the local mental health system, including with Peer Support Workers, First Contact Mental Health Practitioners, GPs and other Practice-based staff, Secondary Healthcare Providers, Service users, Local Authority staff and Voluntary and Third Sector organisations. Connecting colleagues and service users to enhance care. Deliver training in working with relational complexity, SCM awareness, Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF), Trauma Informed Care and the management of risk to wider teams, PCNs and external agencies (e.g. housing providers) To provide focussed indirect support to people presenting with highly complex needs in a leadership role through the FOCUS and High Intensity User Group (HIUG) networks helping them receive the most appropriate care that they need with in the community they live. We require individuals capable of working across the interface of social, community, mental and physical health services, providing liaison and support to acute hospital liaison services in the Acute Hospital to target those that present with alcohol or substance misuse issues and relational difficulties. Co-working alongside other agencies to identify practical barriers to engagement with services, whilst providing psychoeducation or stabilisation and grounding for individuals to allow them to access or engage the most appropriate services to support their needs. We require individuals who can contribute to increasing awareness on a local level including, citizens, agencies, and communities, of the presentation and prevalence of emotional dysregulation, risk to self and others and complexities such as co-morbid substance misuse issues in local populations; using this insight and intelligence to inform future investment decisions as part of community mental health transformation and the NHS Long-Term Plan. We would encourage people interested in providing proactive outreach for people struggling to engage with support and services, identifying and proactively engaging with vulnerable and hard to reach groups, including offering home visits where necessary and linking with peer support workers and VSCE (voluntary community and social enterprise) partners (such as North Yorkshire Horizons and Changing Lives) to increase opportunities for engagement. We hope to recruit individuals with an ability to provide specialist advice to, or obtain advice for, community-based partners on appropriate interventions and on-going person-centred care and management. We want to work with people who are able to develop and deliver early intervention support, including consultation, psychoeducation, self-help materials and links to service user groups within the wider community system, including the delivery of appropriate SCM/problem solving psychoeducational/intervention groups with VCSE services (Horizons, Changing Lives etc) We are looking for people who are motivated to embrace and promote positive working environments/relationships within MDT settings across the wider community system, assisting with the design, development and delivery of local opportunities for closer partnership working (including Wellbeing/Social Hubs), ensuring continuity of care and a robust place-based approach to the physical health management and psychological wellbeing for people over the age of 18 who present with complex emotional needs and additional complexities at a local population level. We are looking for people who can be flexible; able to work within a variety of environments and settings. Your daily work will be largely undertaken within community settings, including primary care, emerging community hubs and Community Mental Health Teams, with access to robust clinical supervision from the Personality & Relational clinicians and support structures as defined by NHSE and the CCGs. In addition to Lynsey Carmichael listed as Clinical Team Manager, Candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Madaleine Rowlinson to discuss this post and expectations prior to interview. Madaleine Rowlinson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Personality and Relational Lead - North Yorkshire York and Selby madaleine.rowlinson@nhs.net